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Journalist Winters was one of the few survivors of the second season, shutting the dodgy eponymous asylum down and killing the doctor (Zachary Quinto) who raped her, as well as the son she bore him years later.

Head scratcher: The actress is already playing Audrey Tindall in the sixth season who - to make matters more confusing - is an actress who plays Lily Rabe's character on a show-within-the-show

The first half of the current season was presented as a documentary called My Roanoke Nightmare, with Paulson playing the actress in the recreations of a married couple's creepy experiences in a haunted house.

In the second half, both the actors and the people they are playing are shut into the real life location together for a reality show.

Paulson is one of only two cast members who have juggled two characters in a single season before.

Busy: The first half of the current season was presented as a documentary called My Roanoke Nightmare, with Paulson playing the actress in the recreations of a married couple's creepy experiences in a haunted house (Pictured with 'husband' Cuba Gooding Jr)

Crossover: As an anthology series, American Horror Story sees the same actors playing different characters every season, But Paulson is the only actress to reprise a character

In season five - Hotel - she played the junkie ghost Hypodermic Sally, as well as the psychic she played in season one - Murder House - Billie Dean Howard.

Finn Wintrock - who played modern day actor Tristan Duffy as well as 1925 actor Rudolph Valentino in a Hotel flashback - is the only other.

On Sunday Murphy also revealed at the EW PopFest Los Angeles that was pulling a 'very bizarre' move in a future installment of AHS with a 'crossover' of Coven and Murder House.

More mixing: On Sunday Murphy also revealed at the EW PopFest Los Angeles that was pulling a 'very bizarre' move in a future installment of AHS with a 'crossover' of Coven and Murder House